Valentina Escalona

 Spain; my destination to visit After finish my undergraduate degree and having traveled through  Latin American countries, I would visit, live and study in Spain. Although, I don't know in which city it could be, I am interested in Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia. I would like to study a postgraduate degree or study  a master's degree in  Forensic Anthropology, and the cities I just named are the right ones to do that.  I am very interested in some postgraduate courses at  the Universidad de Valencia. Furthermore, I have never visited  Spain. Not only that, but I have only seen it in pictures and I  think it's wonderful. Clearly, the change of climate will be very drastic, as I am not used to high temperatures. The maximum I can stand is 33 °C, and as far as I know in Spain it is much more than that. What makes me happiest is that I don't have to learn the language because I already know it :) Universidad de Valencia, Valencia.  City of...

A subject I like since elementary school is History, specifically Chilean History. Learning about the history of chile has always seemed super relevant and interesting to me, since we must know our past before living the present and building the future. Besides, understanding history helps us not to make the same mistakes of the past in the future. Formation of Chilean society was a course I had during this semester, this course was a combination of social anthropology and Chilean history. I learned a lot, I remembered several dates and events that I had forgotten. Before starting the course I was very excited and at the same time I felt that many of the units we were going to see were to remember my beautiful years of primary education, since in these years began my love for the history of Chile. What I value most about the course is that everything we learn, which may have happened 500 years ago, continues to have consequences and repercussions today. And we must always be ready for ...

Memory I decided  to major in anthropology  thinking about  a career  in social anthropology, how close I was going to be to the people, to visit people in their homes and have them tell me stories. The way  to contribute to the benefit of the world was to do reconstruccions of local, social and even national memory. In my career I realized that I could contribute more to forensic anthropology, also working with historical memory, but in a bioanthropological way, doing reconstructions of crimes against humanity (wars, dictatorships, totalitarianisms, etc) through the skeletal remains of the victims,  a very complicated element since in most cases the perpetrators of the crimes choose not to say where they hid the bodies. I do not know if bioanthropology affects the world, but I do consider that when working with the search and analysis of human skeletal remains you have to have a lot of ethics and responsibility that some anthropologists do not have.

I took this photo on October 8 when I went to the Colonial Art Museum in San Francisco, there is a great diversity of animals in this place; chickens, cats, peacocks and fish. The peacock in the photo looked at my cell phone camera and I took the photo immediately. I like this photo because of the curious look the peacock has, as if it wants to identify who are the people who are visiting its quiet space.  The interesting thing about the moment of the photo was that the peacock was the one that approached me and not the other way around, I didn't even make a sound or movement for it to approach, it approached on its own. Apparently it was a peacock sociable with humans. I am struck by how natural the animal appears, almost always in peacock photos photographers expect the peacock to open its big wings, being that the look is also something quite interesting that we should appreciate more.

Mushrooms In August 2019 I made the decision to be a vegetarian, at first it was difficult because I didn't know how to substitute meat and chicken in my daily meals, vegetables were my solution but I didn't eat them, I started with anemia so I forced myself to cook vegetables in different ways. I saw quite a few simple recipes where mushroom was the main ingredient, I started to try it and I loved it. I eat it as a salad, with rice or spaguetti and roasted on the grill. What I love about mushroom is that it is simple to make and whenever I don't know what to do I make it, the bad thing is the price and that's why sometimes I go to the Vega Central in Santiago to buy lots of it. In health it has benefited me a lot, thanks to the search for simple recipes I have found ways to cook vegetables and it is delicious.

 My computer I have had two computers in my life, the first one lasted me six years old and in May this year I bought another one as I need a faster computer. My computer during the pandemic has become my best friend, I use it every day  without fail to study, read, chat with my friends, watch movies or series and ocassionally write to let off steam, when I leave home for more than two days I must take my computador with me. I don ' t really know much about  technology, so all the aplications and website I use are very easy to use, but little by little I have been learning and immersing myself more and more in the world of technology. I really like the computer because it's just an object and it serves for many important things, I know I won´t die if I don't use it but it makes my life much easier and faster.

 My career In this post I want to talk about the reason why I chose my career. I remember that in high school I loved the subject of History, I reviewed my classmates before an exam and sometimes I helped my teachers to lead the classes, since I was little I wanted to study history pedagogy and in my last year of high school I saw other options. Law, Special Education Pedagogy, Social Work and Anthropology were my options, I was undecided because I didn't know what to choose. I finally decided to study Anthropology because of the curriculum, because of the study of the human and everything that leads us to the way we are now. During the first semester I had an approach with biology that I have loved, I have searched for information about bioanthropology and I would really like to dedicate myself to that.